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John Dies at the End - The novel the film is based on is one of the best horror novels I've ever read. So how does the movie compare? Not good. They bascially took the first 90 pages of the book and the last 40 and completely left out everything else. Including a HUGE twist that happened in the book. The movie only lasted 90 minutes when it should have lasted at least two hours, some of the cgi effects were laughable some of the camera work just plain amateurish. It was at least entertaining and the acting coming from the leads was good. Overall it's a very mixed bag 5.5/10

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@Suspiria

Being a huge fan of the novel myself, I thought the movie was actually done quite well to be honest. The only CGI that was bad was Korrok and I thought that Dave and John (more so John) were performed great. It's obviously not as good as the book, it's rare that a movie outdoes a book but does do it justice at the end of the day.

Also about the length, it could of been longer but I think the right choice was to not have it surpass 120 minutes. It would just be too long for the type of film it is.

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"The Loved Ones" makes "Misery" look like " Mary Poppins". a good effective, wince inducing little Australian Film with two of the nastiest nutters you'll see on screen and i couldn't wait to see them get theirs. 8/10.

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This the stepfather as yet again escaped from the insane asylum and had his face surgically, that one to add a re-cast into the story.

This was no wear near as good as first movie, it was even worse then second movie, which I didn't not like that much,

However I do think this movie was far more bloody then the other two movies put together, there were few gory deaths in this movie, even the way they show the death scenes look a bit strange in bad way.

The acting in this movie was really bad from most of the cast, I didn't think Robert Wightman was the right person for this role, I just could find him believable as the killer.

I did like how the movie ended, also some parts of the movie are very predicable as we seen twice, with little sub plot about boy in wheelchair.

I was not aware that this was TV movie until now, I thought it was decent and really bloody for TV movie, the acting was really bad in this movie.

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^^At this point, they were scrapping the bottom of the barrel for money. They pulled it off with $650K. It felt like they lost the original idea, or were trying to go to another idea and just couldn't do it.

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^^^ Phantasm IV was originally supposed to be called Phantasm 1999 AD, written by Roger Avary (co-writer of Pulp Fiction, writer of Beowulf and Silent Hill) and was supposed to be this big, epic, post-apocalyptic thing. But after months and months of trying to secure a budget it became apparent they weren't going to get a budget the size they needed, so Coscarelli scraped together a much smaller and cheaper script so they could at least get some money.

I wish he'd stuck it out with Avary, though. I've never been a fan of this series at all and the only entry I think is half-decent is part 2, but considering Avary is a far better writer, at least if they'd made that film it might have turned out to be a decent chunk of b-movie horror. Alas...

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The Pack (1977) - Another one that I haven't seen for a long time. I remember as a kid being freaked out by the idea of a being attacked by a pack of dogs, but watching it now, it is really pretty tame by todays standards. Still a decent flick plus, I have always liked Joe Don Baker since seeing him in Walking Tall. 3/5.

San Lazaro (2011) - Two estranged friends travel to the town of San Lazaro to seek the help of a faith healer in saving one of their brothers who is possessed by an evil spirit. For a low budget flick out of the Phillipines it is okay. It has some funny moments, but it is also pretty light on action. 3/5.

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BASSI wrote:

^ Have you seen the fourth ?

Not yet no. Haven't felt like getting around to it since I heard it wasn't great

LoudLon wrote:

^^^ Phantasm IV was originally supposed to be called Phantasm 1999 AD, written by Roger Avary (co-writer of Pulp Fiction, writer of Beowulf and Silent Hill) and was supposed to be this big, epic, post-apocalyptic thing.